djaybee's - Rented List

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A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Aquirre, self-styled 'Wrath of God' go up the Amazon in search of gold, but Aquirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.

Eleven hundred men, two women, horses, Ilamas, pigs and rifles descend from the Andes highlands down into the steaming primeval forest where the waters of the Amazon begin, in quest of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Aquirre has with him his beautiful 14-year old daughter who he intends to marry and found a new 'pure' race to rule over a golden empire.

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Matthew (Antoine Lahaie) is a young Canadian trying to make a fresh start in Berlin, but he feels the isolation of living in a strange, new city. When he meets the beautiful and charismatic Matthias (Nicolas Maxim Endlicher), he is immediately entranced.

Soon Matthew's interest escalates, becoming an obsession. He begins to transform himself to embody the object of his desire, cutting his hair, and getting new clothes. When Matthias gets into a motorcycle accident, the opportunity is too perfect. Matthew can now become Matthias. In a coma in the hospital, Matthias' waking life, dreams and memories blur. Where the real ends, the artificial begins.

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Director Ridley Scott, who created two of Hollywood's most stylish adventure thrillers, Alien and Blade Runner, hits the mark again in Black Rain.

Academy Award winner Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and right into the middle of a raging, brutal 'Yakuza' gangland battle.

A Parisian bookseller, Lestingois, fishes Boudu, a vagrant, out of the river Seine. He befriends the tramp and puts him up at home, where Boudu causes nothing but trouble. However, events take a different turn when Boudu wins the lottery...

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What happens when two gay men in a disintegrating relationship leave the big city to spend some time alone, together in nature? Is it possible for nature to reveal the truth, their true essence and help them to change? Can these two wounded men; traumatised, hurt, lost and desperate on a remote

beach find a way back to innocence? Is there a way back to reality, back to love? A romantic, poetic and explicit rumination on modern gay love "He Loves Me" is British queer cinema at its finest and most authentic.

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When Jonas (Nicolas Bauwens / Félix Maritaud) was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan (Tommy Lee Baïk). In addition to guiding him in grappling with his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend.

Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories from this time still haunt Jonas. Trying frantically to put the missing pieces together, Jonas becomes determined to break the shackles of the past and finally set himself free.

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Isabelle Huppert stars as Ann. a gifted and brilliant musician whose sense of security falls to pieces when she witnesses her husband kissing another woman.

Without hesitation, she abandons him and takes a headlong rush into a new beginning, embarking on a transnational journey that ultimately takes her to an isolated island villa and into the arms of local woman Giulia. with whom Ann begins to explore a whole new facet of life.

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In Kyoto, Japan, in the 1970's, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face.

When she grows up, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) remembers the event with much affection and excitement and begins a search for an ideal calligrapher-lover who will use her whole body as his personal paper. After much unfulfilled searching, she meets Jerome (Ewan McGregor), an English translator, who convinces her that she should be the pen and not the paper. She should write on his body and he will deliver her manuscripts, on his skin, to a publisher. However, the plan works too well and jealousy begins to rip through their passionate relationship with dramatic and devastating effect.

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"Breathing" is the inspiring story of a young man who must find resolution with his past in order to take the next step into his adult life. Abandoned by his mother as a young child, Roman Kogler (Thomas Schubert), now 19 years old, is serving time in a juvenile detention centre in Vienna.

When threatened with a life behind bars unless he finds probation work, he takes an unexpected job that slowly encourages him to adjust to the outside world. Whilst at work he makes a startling discovery that triggers him to track down his mother and address the unanswered questions surrounding his childhood. Confronting his past enables Roman to finally come up for air and start the next chapter of his life.

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When Josef (Pascal Arquimedes) arrives at John's (Donal Brophy)'s apartment for a date, their prickly energy slowly gives way to genuine chemistry.

But after swallowing a pill with mind-bending effects, Josef quickly slides helplessly down a rabbit hole of temporal sleight-of-hand, plunged into a surreal interrogation of everything he is.

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Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Haemi (Jong-seo Jun).

She asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Haemi introduces Ben (Steven Yeun) to Jongsu. One day, Ben visits Jongsu with Haemi and confesses his own secret hobby.

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From acclaimed Palme d'Or winning director Nanni Moretti comes The Caiman, at once an irresistible comedy and a full frontal attack on former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlisconi.

Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie producer Bruno is finding it hard to raise the finance for his latest project. Entangled in debt, struggling with a capsizing marriage and wayward kids, Bruno is going under. By chance, he meets a young director who gives him her script, The Caiman. At first Bruno takes it for a half-hearted thriller; a more careful - if belated - reading reveals a film about Berlisconi. As his professional and personal life disintegrate around him, Bruno rediscovers his dignity and passion as he fights to finish the film.

From Filipino bad-boy director Brillante Mendoza comes Slingshot, a gripping and exhilarating portrayal of teenage thugs, slippery chancers and petty thieves, all out to get what they can and pocket a profit in the teeming slums of Asia's notorious city of sin, Manila.

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22-year-old Leo (Félix Maritaud) sells his body on the street for cash. Men come and go but he remains; stuck in the same place and longing for love. Uncertain of what his future may bring, Leo hits the road.

Sometimes reckless, sometimes savage, sometimes tender but always with a pounding heart - Leo is ready for change.

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A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside.

The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their own prejudices and mistrust due to the language barrier and cultural differences with the native villagers. The foreman Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek) and the mysterious Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) also start to fall out. The stage is quickly set for a showdown when the German workers begin to compete for recognition and favour from the local villagers.